Early life[edit] Coat of arms of Ludwig von Mises's great-grandfather, Mayer Rachmiel Mises, awarded upon his 1881 ennoblement by Franz Joseph I of Austria Ludwig von Mises was born to Jewish parents in the city of Lviv, present-day Ukraine (the then-Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary). The family of his father, Arthur Edler von Mises, had been elevated to the Austrian nobility in the 19th century
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